Tiny Tech Cafe of Kindness

$790
of $500 goal

I am an instructional technology resource teacher serving the students and teachers at Mechanicsville Elementary in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Our school is classified as Title I, meaning many of our students are from low-income households. We serve 640 students and have more than 40 educators on staff.

My goal this year is to create a warm, inviting environment for student and teacher learning. I am transforming our school's computer lab into a "Tiny Tech Cafe", similar to a Starbucks restaurant where everyone can find a comfortable place to sit, relax, share a conversation with someone else while being productive with technological tasks. Flexible seating is key!

I would also like to a have an area to create green-screen videos with students, so they can enhance their digital projects with background images from locations around the world. For more information on my rationale for this project, please click here to read my blog post about the Tiny Tech Cafe.

I also have a heart for kindness. Any money raised that exceeds the cost of the items below will be used for random acts of kindness in our school and local community and documented on my Random Acts of Kindness blog: http://bit.ly/celebratekindness

Ideally, the Tiny Tech Cafe would open in my birthday month which is right around the corner! I would love to have items in place for the first day of school which is Tuesday, September 6. This is also the birthday of my mother-in-law who passed away this past March, so a dedication plaque would be added to the Tiny Tech Cafe in her memory if this goal is reached.

Any amount you donate would be greatly appreciated - no amount is too small! All donations will be acknowledged in a future blog post on my Random Acts of Kindness blog. If you share on Twitter, include #GFMToSchool so other donors know this is to support a public school classroom!

You have an opportunity to make our learning environment exceptional and earn rewards through different donation levels, too. Thank you for helping me transform learning in a positive way! Make sure to subscribe to updates so you can follow our progress as we transform our computer lab into the Tiny Tech Cafe!

We are excited to showcase the Tiny Tech Cafe during Mechanicsville Elementary's Back-to-School night Thursday, September 29, 2016! The Cafe will be open for visitors from 5:30-6:00pm and 7:00-7:30pm. Our latest update is here in case you missed it: http://bit.ly/RAK2TTC Hope to see you there!

Thanks to everyone for your amazing support! We now have a bookshelf, sofa, two tables, chairs, bar stools and more in our Tiny Tech Cafe! Visit http://bit.ly/TTCUpdateWeek2 to read all the updates we've shared, with photos and shout-outs as well! The campaign will remain active through October so we can add new, relevant, educational books for teachers to check out in our Lending Library. We appreciate each and every share, retweet, donation and contribution! You are making dreams come true!